JNN 14 Jan 2014 Damascus : The Islamist State of Iraq and the Levant has killed Hundreds of rival Wahabi rebels in Syria over the last couple of days as the Al-Qaeda-linked group regained most of the territory it lost in the northeastern Raqqa province, according to activists.

Up to 100 rebel fighters from the Nusra Front, another Al-Qaeda-linked group, and Ahrar al-Sham brigade were executed after being captured by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the town of Tel Abiad, on the border with Turkey, Reuters quoted activists as saying.

“About 70 bodies, most shot in the head, were collected and sent to the Raqqa National hospital,” an unnamed activist said. “Many of those executed had been wounded in the fighting. The fact that Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham are ideologically Wahabi , similar to the ISIL did not matter.”

The in-fighting between rebel groups and ISIL intensified over the past week. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated on Saturday that at least 482 people were killed since the fighting between moderates and mainstream rebel factions versus ISIL intensified on January 3.

The group added that 157 individuals were from the ISIL, 240 others were from more moderate factions and 85 were civilians.

According to opposition sources, Nusra Front’s commander for Raqqa province Abu Saad al-Hadram was among the militants killed over the weekend.

Activists said that the ISIL was able to recapture much of its stronghold in Raqqa with its offensive. Also, they gained back control over Tel Abyad, a town on the border with Turkey, over the weekend.

A member of the opposition Syrian National Coalition from Raqqa, Abdallah Farraj, believes that rebels will have a hard time getting rid of ISIL’s control over Raqqa.

“The rebels lack the organization and the firepower to win. It will be difficult to defeat ISIL without military strikes from someone like Turkey,” Farraj said.

On top of that, groups like Ahrar al-Sham are choosing not to fight ISIL, as they have relatives inside the militant group.

“Many did not see a point in fighting their own relatives. ISIL is now in control of 95 percent of Raqqa and its rural environs. Tel Abyad is also back with it,” he said.

An ISIL statement called on Raqqa tribes to pull out their members from anti-ISIL militant units and said the attacks against the group were designed to “destroy the nucleus of the caliphate” and promote a “heathen” alternative.

ISIL pulled out of Raqqa and other towns in northern Syria this month after an extremist militant alliance attacked its strongholds, taking advantage of growing popular resentment of the group’s commanders, their killing of other militants and a drive to impose a strict interpretation of their law.

But ISIL has regrouped in the last few days, using snipers, truck-mounted commando units and suicide bombers.

Opposition sources said the expertise of its foreign commanders, including a senior figure known as Omar al-Shishani, had been crucial to its advance.

In the province of Aleppo west of Raqqa, activists said ISIL had regained several rural towns, including Hreitan and Basraton, where ISIL killed a senior commander in the Nour al-Din Zanki brigades, a key unit in the newly-formed Mujahideen Army, which has been fighting ISIL in Aleppo.

Initially the ISIL were fighting on the side of the moderates to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad in a conflict that began in March 2011.

In the meantime, 29 terrorists have been killed by the government forces in the Damascus countryside, SANA reported Sunday. Also, the army carried out other offensives in Madaya, Yabroud, Adra al-Balad, and Joubar.

Some experts point to a change in the discourse as extremist groups take hold of Syria. Political analyst Sharmine Narwani told that many key players are starting to view Syrian President Bashar Assad as a lesser evil.

“Recently we’ve been hearing a change in the discourse whether in fact Assad might be in fact better than some of the extremists we are seeing on the ground now,” Narwani said.

“We are hearing some changes, particularly from the US, who are so worried about this uncontrolled extremism spreading throughout the region. They started to change the discourse, even initiate contact with former foes like Iran via Geneva nuclear talks, that we could not have conceived a year ago.”

Narwani added that there is no chance for a united opposition at this point. “It has become a turf war, money powered, the stakes had become so high after three years,” she said, noting that on top of that the Geneva peace talks have become a “circus.”

“We have been distracted by who is being invited and the posturing before the talks. Unless we are realistic about the military solution on the ground, targeting militants, terrorists, jihadists, you are never going to arrive at a political solution. And my fear is that as the Geneva ‘circus’ continued to the extent that it becomes institutionalized like Geneva 3, 4, 5 and 6 in the same way Middle East peace process was over 20 years ago. That will absolutely distract from a Syrian solution and we cannot afford that.”

ALHAMDOLILLAH, BUT ONLY 700 YAHOODI-WAHABIES SENT TO JAHANNUM / IF THERE WERE ANOTHER 2-3 ZEROES ADDED TO THE FIGURE , IT WOULD HAVE BEEN KHAS KAM , JAHAAN PAAK .
WILL YOU PLEASE , NEXT GIVE SUCH NEWS , BUT PLEASE , DON’T DELAY , WAIT IS GREAT PAIN ..